To isolate a sick person or animal means to keep them apart from other people or animals, so that their illness does not spread. You don't have to isolate them from the community
{f} seclude, set apart, separate; separate one who is sick from others who are healthy, quarantine (Medicine); extract, remove a pure substance from one that is impure (Chemistry)
To separate from all foreign substances; to make pure; to obtain in a free state
The term used to denote a pathogen or mixture of pathogens derived from a particular source See also TSE isolate
place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates" obtain in pure form; "The chemist managed to isolate the compound" separate (experiences) fromt he emotions relating to them
To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or alone; to insulate; to separate from others
a group of organisms isolated, or separated, from a specimen; in an M tuberculosis isolate, the organisms have been identified as M tuberculosis (a positive culture for M tuberculosis)
To raise with the intention of thinning the field to yourself and a single other player is to isolate that player I raised to isolate him, but ended up getting three callers
To isolate a substance means to obtain it by separating it from other substances using scientific processes. We can use genetic engineering techniques to isolate the gene that is responsible Researchers have isolated a new protein from the seeds of poppies
Separation of an aroma chemical from an essential oil via distillation (mechanically) or hydrolysis (chemically), or by other partitioning methods Example - Eugenol ex Clove Leaf
place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates"
to separate from everything else -- "A better way is to isolate the unknown " (98)